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Mich

Geeze... I always forget how frighteningly skinny I am until I see a picture of me, but it doesn't seem like anyone else has that problem. Anyway, an update of me, pounding away on the typewriter I just got on eBay for $0.50. It's an old Royal, and I have absolutely no idea how to get it to work. I ...

Mich

"You don't like Wang? No, I love the Wang!"

"It takes a long time for Wang to get itself-- himself up. I did it again, didn't I?"

Wang is the last name of a guy we know... conversations about him where you come in halfway can get interesting.

Mich

Sometimes I wish *chan references were bannable offenses (even though I make them sometimes). I don't really know why.

Sometimes I agree. You do get that odd fuzzy feeling inside jokes give you, but there's this icky coating on the fuzz.

Mich

Sorry, I actually didn't mean what I said to be any sort of pressure. Just... a nudge if the person was just looking for excuses. If you honestly feel that having it there would distract and actually hurt your schoolwork, then by all means, don't enter. You would be a much better judge than me on ho...

Mich

I'd love to try, but five classes all 300+ and two days of work a week tell me that it would be academic suicide. Come on, Rei. I'm taking five classes and working 30 hours a week. Of course, my classes are 200 levels, but still. It's not like it's a priority that comes FIRST, just one that comes w...

Mich

Sometimes I wish my life were a musical. Too bad I can't sing. Confession: I was wishing this today! I was thinking it would be so cool, since I work at a call center, and it would be perfect for a musical number. I would just start singing about how boring work is, and how mundane working in a cal...

Mich

I've had one kind of fuming about... I suppose I could try to enter this year. [Edit:]Well, since I've been pretty much thinking about it almost non-stop since I posted this, like, however many hours ago, I suppose I'm doing it. I sort of started a couple pages absolutely ages ago, but I suppose it ...

Mich

I was about to hit my 1000th post on Fresco before it went down, and I had been there for five... no, six years. So good luck! You've already achieved 7.

Mich

Also, it asked for my childhood self. I've worked hard at changing some of my childhood traits, and the answers for then were sometimes really different from my answers now.

That was really my biggest beef with it.

Other than that, White.

Mich

Confession (in much shorter terms than it probably deserves): I came back to my home town because the college town seemed to be less comfortable, and I thought I didn't really fit in, to put it childishly. But now I'm back and all of the people that I thought I fit better with have taken turns for t...

Mich

Anyway...

I apologize for my improper use of the word "literal". Perhaps I should have used the term "less made up but still not quite literal".

Post wars make me queasy.

Mich

Let's see... my current one is a French word used by Neal Stephenson as a title for one of his main characters. By his definition, it means (pardon my French, ha ha) "he who f****** s*** up," but literally it means "the bloody nuisance". I thought it was a rather nice phrase. Pre...

Mich

I feel I have to pay respects to someone that has had such a great influence on science fiction. So here it is.

Mich

Confession: My very good friend has OCD, or, rather, had, because one day several months ago, she woke up, and all of her symptoms were gone. Now, she has had pretty severe OCD since she was seven or so, but she's gotten very good at hiding it, so most people wouldn't even realize it until she warne...

Mich

Encino Man is one of those movies that sounds like a bad idea, then you see it, and it's worse than you imagined because the person suggesting it never mentioned Polly Shore, yet you love it, anyway.

Then again, it did have Sean Astin.

Mich

Confession: I felt too surrounded by geeks today during my lunch break. I left a group of girls where one was talking about her boyfriend who accidentally deleted her Oblivion save, "but it was cool because I had a second save that was only five levels behind," past a pair of guys where on...

Mich

lol, I didn't think that Star Wars and QC would ever look that good together, but you have just proved me wrong.

Mich

The best part about the A & B buttons is that they do nothing!

And my friend who helped me a lot with this says he would be willing to do it again, but he would require payment. And your own GameBoy.

Mich

I love stop motion videos. This is a score, wiz.

Mich

If I had a digital camera, I totally would have taken pictures of the process and posted it online. However, since I did not, no complete documentation exists, so you'll have to go with an "I think this is what happened most likely, maybe" general sort of idea. 1) Open up GameBoy, remove a...

Mich

That's the beauty of it! It doesn't do anything!

Oh, but it does do stuff. It does. It just does less stuff than it seems it ought to.

Mich

Not quite a portrait, but a project a friend and I did today, and I'm super excited about it! Feel free to comment upon my brilliance (I came up with the idea on Tuesday).

Mich

but what it sounds like and what's happening are slightly different. i "hear" as i read, too. i also "see" it. You can still "see" and "hear" at the same time. Just... like a narrator of a movie. I find it no different than that. I don't even know if we're ar...

Mich

I generally find that people understand you, either way, and people will say either way. But then, maybe Idaho is weird.

Mich

I seem to read in real-time. As if someone were reading the book to me, except it's my internal monologue. Exactly how I was going to put it. What's with this "groups of words" thing? However, with books I enjoy/know I will enjoy, I try to read slower, to help the words sink in more. Espe...

Mich

Confession: sometimes, when I'm driving on the street that turns into the beginning of the interstate, I like to pretend that I'm on a spaceship that's gradually getting up to light-speed. Sometimes I talk to the flight controllers. Confession: I have an unusual (or usual, for me) obsession with voi...

Mich

I tend to find that whichever you watch first, you are more attached to. My friend watched Bebop subbed first, is the only person I know to have done so, and cannot stand the English cast, whereas everyone else I know think that it is of the highest quality for dubbed anime. I suppose it's kind of l...

Mich

Confession: I'm no longer stealing internet! Wooo!

Okay, it's not really a confession, but there it is.

Mich

I simply feel it must be said, at this point: "That kid is BACK on the ESCALATOR!"

Mich

That is amazing. Sometimes I wish I were a teacher just so I could do awesome things like that.

Mich

Xenocide is always the one, for me, where, when I go back through and reread the series, I always get held up for one reason or another.

Sometimes it's a simple as getting halfway through and thinking "Is it really worth the trouble?"

Mich

Another to add to Mich's food service personel

- Ask an employee clearly on break if they can get you something from behind the counter.

I would agree, but when I'm on break, I stay out of sight. It makes it that much clearer.

Mich

Confession: I'm in training for a new job at a call center, and there are about 15 other people in the same classes as me. One of them has been through training before because, as she constantly reminds us, she used to work for corporate, than moved on to another career, and now wishes to be a part ...

Mich

I found FrescoPics first, actually, a now defunct forum about the Ender's Game movie. Then Alai (now Craig) mentioned something about P-Web, most likely, and I checked it out and didn't like it. :p

Mich

Confession: I am now stealing internet from some unknown neighbor. I can only get 1 bar, but it's enough.

Confession: To tempt fate, I connected to his printer and printed out "HALP ME I AM TRAPPTED IN THE PRINTAR!!1!"

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